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liburutegianet2020-12-10 12:23 pm
weifinder) wrote in liburutegianet2020-12-10 12:23 pm
video | what this library needs is a book club
( This is a video message brought to you by Wei Wuxian, who just learned about video in the last week or so, and definitely knows nothing about making a video well. So congratulations, he's holding his recording tablet in one hand, in selfie mode, and grinning at the camera. He tips his head toward it, since bowing... won't work with him holding his tablet, and begins. )
This whole moving images film-creating concept is fantastic! Wei Ying, courtesy name Wei Wuxian, greeting all the others swept into this library and out of their proper homes with a simple suggestion for the sake of entertainment: a reading group. I even have a starting novel for the adult audience!
( He looks offscreen to pick up a novel and showcase its simple bound red front with lovely golden writing visible: Resentment of Chunshan. This is porn. It is very raunchy, very fantasy-not-reality gay porn written by a woman from ancient fantasy China. It is also, hopefully, an amusing read? )
This one promises to be absolutely scandalous! Then for the people who are more inclined toward having a sense of any other taste, well, I have recommendations. I've leafed through many, many books this last week and then some, if it's been a week, or any, or who knows? Time here is rather... stagnant. Either way, speak up here, or find me in person, I'm hanging around the third level with all the lounging space.
( ... then the tablet shakes as he tucks the book under an arm and taps at the screen to end the video. )
[ ooc note: novel found with permission from Shen Qingqiu's player! ]
This whole moving images film-creating concept is fantastic! Wei Ying, courtesy name Wei Wuxian, greeting all the others swept into this library and out of their proper homes with a simple suggestion for the sake of entertainment: a reading group. I even have a starting novel for the adult audience!
( He looks offscreen to pick up a novel and showcase its simple bound red front with lovely golden writing visible: Resentment of Chunshan. This is porn. It is very raunchy, very fantasy-not-reality gay porn written by a woman from ancient fantasy China. It is also, hopefully, an amusing read? )
This one promises to be absolutely scandalous! Then for the people who are more inclined toward having a sense of any other taste, well, I have recommendations. I've leafed through many, many books this last week and then some, if it's been a week, or any, or who knows? Time here is rather... stagnant. Either way, speak up here, or find me in person, I'm hanging around the third level with all the lounging space.
( ... then the tablet shakes as he tucks the book under an arm and taps at the screen to end the video. )
[ ooc note: novel found with permission from Shen Qingqiu's player! ]
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Storytellers are kind of interesting, I guess...I don't usually get to hear them. [Since they're usually inside the tea houses, and all....either way he certainly looks more interested than he did a second ago.]
Are you gonna read out loud?
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( he gestures toward the book he'd held up before, which. cannot actually be seen on screen. whoops? )
So I don't think it'd be as fun to read out loud as the ones that are. What do you think? I could read from the first pages of different stories, and you could pick which one I keep reading out loud.
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The boy nods though, shoving his questions aside for some other time.]
Sounds good to me. This place is full of books all over the place, so it's gotta have some good stories somewhere in it. [And half a second later:] When's a good time to do it? Later? Tomorrow? Right now?
[Look how polite he is, giving you options!]
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Right now is fine by me if it's fine by you! I think I have an idea of where we can start looking for the best adventures, too. Think you can beat me to the third floor wing facing out toward the water?
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—I'm not falling for that, for all I know you're already over there! [Half-second pause] I'll be there when I get there!
[He gets up, disappears from the screen for two seconds, comes back to pick up the tablet, runs! He hasn't actually turned off the video though, so hope you don't get motion sickness from the view of the world flying by under his arm.]
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He does have to look away from the screen, watching in peripheral as the kid zooms up the stairs, everything a blur of bouncing movement that makes him more than vaguely nauseated to see. )
I'll be waiting! As you do.
( He also tucks the softcore porn away in the meantime, because Shen Jiu is not quite the age of Here, Sure, Look At The Pictures. Better not to give himself that headache, and instead focus on trying to recall where the adventure stories had been that he saw.
He's tapping his fingers against his chin when Shen Jiu finds him, an arm crossed over his chest. He brightens and smile, hand dropping away from his chin to wave. )
Ready to pick out a story? There were a few good ones I glanced at earlier dealing with cultivation adventures, but also ones with bandits, or river pirates, or a band of women crossing a dessert while being tracked by a death worm.
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That last one sounds weird, let's read that one. What're they crossing the desert for, does it say?
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( This is exactly how you know if the book's worth reading. You randomly flip through and see if anything grabs your attention, apparently.
Up he goes, and then he gestures for Shen Jiu to follow him: )
A-Jiu, let's head toward that section, we can see if the novel says anything about why. Journeys for a purpose is a common enough theme, but this whole death worm did sound inspired!
( LITTLE DOES HE KNOW... there's nothing not to know the books aren't dangerous. He has a spry enough step as he heads toward the section, appropriately on this level, that's in a side wing away from the main lounge area. )
Let's see, most those were over here...
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[Maybe it's not even about death worms at all!! Not that he knows how books work, he's just being contrary. Still, Shen Jiu follows behind, perfectly well-behaved for the moment; he can't tell the books apart without help, after all, so until he figures out the whole reading thing...well, he's quiet for now, at least.]
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( He's pantomiming flipping open a book to different pages. )
A number of books here helpfully have little summaries on the sides or the back? It's all new to me, never seen anything like it before.
( Because for some reason I'm saying this library keeps ALL DUST COVERS AND BOOK JACKETS )
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[It's hard to miss the fact that these books aren't in scroll format, but--]
So somebody wrote on the back of every book in this place? I wonder if they got paid any for that.
[Staring at the shelves...he doesn't pull any books out though, it's not like there'd be any point.]
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( He's already sidetracked, then shaking his head. Hah! Book after book, he finds the one that has the summary he'd been looking for, tugging it off shelf. )
Ah! Here we are. Want to head to one of the comfortable seats for me to start reading?
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Sure, okay. We can sit anywhere, right? No rules or anything?
[Already looking back out towards the end of the shelves. Maybe he can find something with cushions on it, just imagine that extravagance!]